Quotes about Advocacy
What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible
- Dallas Willard
Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.
- Wendell Berry
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
- William James
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
- Tony Campolo
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
- Al Gore
These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.
- Dorothy Day
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
- Desmond Tutu
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
- Max Lucado
Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.
- Martin Luther King III
I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.
- Eva Moskowitz
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
- Tony Campolo